triller wrote:Looks like the link to Mark Niemiec's synthesis page has gone south.I'm getting a redirect from interserv to earthlink.Any known mirror?

A surprising amount is still available on the Wayback Machine [archive.org].

Mark is working on some minor cleanup of the HTML files, which haven't been regularly updated since late 1998. After that, the revised pages may pop up somewhere new... further bulletins as events warrant.

Yes, those pages have been defunct since sometime in 2010, I think. I've updated the link with the only available backup copy, an Internet Archive version from 22 May 2010. All the images are broken, but if you click on them you can generally get to an RLE file equivalent to the missing image. Might be worth rebuilding some of those articles -- there's a lot of good information there.

If there's anything particular you're looking for that the WayBack Machine didn't save, I might possibly have a copy lying around somewhere -- let's see, there was a seven-segment decimal display, a phi calculator, pi calculator, a universal computer-constructor, a 2D binary counter -- and probably quite a few other impressive patterns that I've temporarily forgotten about...!

dvgrn wrote:[L]et's see, there was a seven-segment decimal display, a phi calculator, pi calculator, a universal computer-constructor, a 2D binary counter -- and probably quite a few other impressive patterns that I've temporarily forgotten about...!

Update: most of Calcyman's patterns are now available via the "Large Patterns" collection in Golly 2.6's Help > Online Archives. More can be added without building a new release of Golly -- so if a particular pattern seems to be missing, please feel free to ask for it!

Hi all, I recreated GoL in JavaScript and added some social features around it. The algorithm for computing is not optimal, and neither is the web design or content management. Nevertheless, I think it may have some value if it were to grow because more people who otherwise wouldn't care might become interested in GoL because of the social element. Check it out on tunetiles.com. I'd love your feedback.

Hi, does my site qualify to be on the list? http://patterns.boundstechconsulting.com It would be nice to add it if so. It's new, and with direction and participation of the conwaylife and CA community, I think it could be a nice resource for us to use in conjunction with this site and others.

I am especially excited to see more people on the site-wide public and private chat. You can do so anonymously or with an account. I think as a community we are not always a social as we could be. We are off in our own little worlds working and playing with CA, something exciting might happen if we interact more and cross pollinate our efforts!

Done. It's nice to see Life32 in operation again. What versions of Windows will Life32v2.18 run on? It might make sense to set expectations in the README.

I'm having some trouble on a Windows 7 laptop. Windows shifts to a "basic" color scheme to run the program, and the Life32 application window can't be maximized, the zoom level can't be controlled very well, and patterns I open aren't always visible -- sometimes they're displayed correctly, and sometimes the window goes blank or only some cells are displayed.

Windows 7 also refuses to open the Life32 Help file, though you can fix that to some extent by downloading a Help file reader from Microsoft.

An example interpreter code in order to run the above code is here with my subtle alterings - it uses os instead of getch for handling stdin - original by Sebastian Kaspari here: https://github.com/pocmo/Python-Brainfuck :

Richard McKenna is a professor at Stony Brook University, and for one of his courses last semester, he has his students develop online games based on Conway's Game of Life. They are available to play here: